StefanMz

Grouped Links Widget can use any number of widget instances to group links by their associated link categories. This adds a bit more CMS functionality to WordPress.
If the blogroll is grouped into link categories and each category contains internal tag references, then you can flexibly group link categories and put these link groups into your sitebar(s). This, of course, works with traditional external links put in a blogroll too.
Each group of link categories can be sorted by name acending or decending. If simple sorting doesn’t fit to your desired order to be appear in the sidebar, then create more than one link group and place them in the sidebar as you wish.
In order to adapt Grouped Links Widget to different HTML theme codes, HTML tags can be set for each link group and for each title within the link group. However, default values should work with most themes.
Grouped Links Widget is a simple widget, it mainly uses wp_list_bookmarks. Version 2.0 was completely refactored in order to adapt to the new WordPress 2.8 multi widget technique. If you want to add more functionality, don’t hesitate to modify the code. 😉
Grouped Links Widget’s homepage: <a href="http://groupedlinks.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://groupedlinks.wordpress.com/</a>

Grouped Links Widget

Grouped Links Widget can use an unlimited number of widget instances to group links by their associated link categories.

Meini

Add a list of your latest blog entries on any page. 
With simple shortcode you can place a list of your latest news (or other blog category) on any page or post. 
This is a simple plugin based on a query by Sachethan G Reddy that fetches the latest posts titles from any given category.
<h3>Documentation</h3>
Use the following shortcode anywhere on your page or post following the examples below: 
 [utech_latest_posts category=’news’] 
replace the word news in this example with the category that you would like to use.
<pre><code>[utech_latest_posts category='news' limit=10]
</code></pre>
this example limits the number of results to 10 instead of the default which is 5 entries
<h3>Settings</h3>
none

Utech List Post Titles

List your latest posts by category using simple shortcode.

Grouped Links Widget vs Utech List Post Titles